Educational Programs & Operations

While we face challenges and growing pains, uniting for our students’ success remains our unwavering goal. Together, we can ensure that the achievements in our classrooms, on our stages, on our fields, and in our communities continue to flourish.

Beyond the Budget
This levy represents more than just a budget line; it’s a commitment to providing uninterrupted, high-quality education, ensuring our students thrive. The EP&O levy helps fund academic programs, education support staff, teacher salaries, instructional training, and more.

Bridging the Gap
Your support is vital to fill the gap between basic state funding and our actual educational needs, enhancing programs like STEM and language services and ensuring opportunities for continuous achievement in our classrooms and community. With your levy dollars, we can be responsive to the needs and wants of our school community and continue to offer opportunities that sets our schools apart from surrounding communities.

Laying the Foundation
By voting yes, we’re preparing for future leadership and setting up the next superintendent for success, ensuring they have the resources to enhance the Tahoma experience.

Moving Forward
Despite our frustrations, our community cannot allow the shortcomings of some leaders to interrupt the experiences vital to our kids; a VOTE yes is a vote for our children.

Your ‘YES’ brings innovation and inspiration to every student experience, bridging the gap between basic state funding and the actual needs of our students.

Supporting Holistic Development
Vote yes to maintain a range of crucial services that foster well-rounded development and opportunities for belonging. From health and safety measures and mental wellness to athletics, arts and extracurricular activities, these are your levy dollars at work.

Purposeful Pathways for Students
Through technology, diverse graduation pathways, extended course offerings, and more, the opportunities we provide for our students today support them in their opportunities down the road. We want all students to have the experiential, accessible, and necessary tools to attain both instructional goals and their own aspirations.

Maintaining High Academic Standards
As parents, we want to ensure academic opportunity for our children and look for communities that will provide them. The asks of these levies go beyond basic education funding and work to enrich student learning at a level Tahoma families like yours have come to expect, with your ‘yes’ working to preserve essential programs that contribute to student excellence, like AP and dual-credit courses essential to student success.

Funding for Vital Educational Resources
The EP&O Levy is crucial, comprising about 17% of our general fund revenue, and its absence would lead to significant reductions in staff, programs, and services, which are vital for providing a well-rounded education to all Tahoma students.

Collaborative Community Effort
The levies represent a joint commitment to the educational progress and well-being of our students, inviting active participation from all community members with a ‘vote yes.’ The passage of the Educational Programs and Operations levy allows for increased mental health support, support staff, counselors, security on our campuses, special education, and more of what protects our students’ social and emotional well-being as they develop into contributing members of our community.

Community and School Synergy
Voting yes strengthens the bond between families, educators, and the community, ensuring a collaborative continuation of programs that nurture and inspire our young learners, contributing to the overall health and vibrancy of Maple Valley.

Building the Future
By supporting this levy, we are ensuring that our students have access to the modern resources and diverse opportunities they need to succeed in today’s world. The levy renewal isn’t just about today’s needs; it’s about shaping a thriving, well-educated community for tomorrow.

Cultivating Leaders
Children today are the leaders of tomorrow. Your ‘yes’ helps our teachers and school personnel to close growth gaps and foster environments that celebrate more engaged students, higher graduation rates, and increased opportunities for students once they leave our schools and enter into our community as passionate, driven, and educated employees.

The Right Choice for our Community
Support the levies to strengthen Maple Valley’s economic and social fabric. Strong schools contribute to higher property values and a more desirable community at large.

Vote YES for our kids. A loss of levy funds would mean significant reductions in staff, programs, and services for student learning.

Tahoma School District announced two levies for the upcoming February 2024 election. Both are essential for student learning, programs, and staffing.

Empowerment Through Diverse Programs
Vote yes to equip students with advanced resources and equitable opportunities, including mental health and special education, to help meet everyone’s diverse needs and foster inclusive learning environments that prepare every child for a successful future.

Advancing Educational Quality
A positive vote means continuous advancement in educational quality, ensuring the continuation of student-centered learning and high-quality educational programs like AP courses. Levy dollars allow an eight period day at the high school level and expanded electives at the middle school level to showcase a variety of occupational pathways that help ensure success for all students.

Inclusivity and Accessibility
Support the levies to provide access to quality education for all students – regardless of learning style or interests – giving them the choice and ability to find what they’re passionate about.